'Jackie Brown' is a great fucking movie.

Odell tapping his fingernails on his screwdriver, trying to interest jackie.

The stoned concentration Louis puts into untangling the telephone cord

Bridget Fonda. Rowrrrr.

Pam Grier - what a beauty! Who knows what to watch earlier in her career?

her "Cosby Show" appearance.

Foxy Brown

Coffy

had totally forgotten she's in Something Wicked This Way Comes

i thought the revive was for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnaI-w8h8Ls

sweet! even tho there are a lot of leonard movies im always surprised there arent more cause his books just demand to be adapted

that one looks good

its fun to see how everyone always tries to adapt his vibe into a visual

The sweetest part of this movie is realizing Ordell seems to genuinely like Max, thus is disappointed that he'd fuck him over.

the movie is about people whom Ordell likes (Max, Jackie, Melanie) fucking him over

does he like beaumont

shit yeah he would've had Bojangles with him

or Popeyes -- I forget

lol

Nothing in "Modern Film" annoys me more than QT's refusal to direct someone else's story again (yeah it's been said before, bt still)

The movie's backbone is Ordell's wornout support system finally disintegrating to me, dunno if that's down to "ppl he likes" letting him down necessarily

Guys, let me help you out here. The movie is called Jackie Brown.

no it's not

The movie's backbone is Ordell's wornout support system finally disintegrating to me, dunno if that's down to "ppl he likes" letting him down necessarily

sure but it's down to SLJ, who suggests that he respects Max and Jackie.

Yeah and under his old values they'd respect him back, bt those times're gone. This also kinda syncs up w how routine and bathetic Beaumont's shooting is, I guess

ordell's let down that max doesn't wash his hands

does anybody know what music is playing in the scene where ordell is sitting back on his couch in his living room (i think)? for years i wanted to know, could never figure it out on the internet for some reason.

"your ass used to be beautiful" is the best

I love the beat that SLJ takes when he and De Niro are sitting in the van trying to figure out wtf happened to the money, before he says, "It was Jackie Brown." Executed wrong it would be "being caught acting," but he does it so perfectly.

that whole scene has terrific dynamics. Anger at what Louis has done turns to commiseration to rage again.

Ebert began his review with that scene:

I like the moment when the veins pop out on Ordell's forehead. It's a quiet moment in the front seat of a van, he's sitting there next to Louis, he's just heard that he's lost his retirement fund of $500,000, and he's thinking hard. Quentin Tarantino lets him think. Just holds the shot, nothing happening. Then Ordell looks up and says, "It's Jackie Brown.'' He's absolutely right. She's stolen his money. In the movies people like him hardly ever need to think. The director has done all their thinking for them. One of the pleasures of "Jackie Brown,'' Tarantino's new film, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, is that everybody in the movie is smart. Whoever is smartest will live.

Say what you will about QT, but he does quiet pretty good too.

i watched life of crime it was pretty good

they def got some of the subtleties of leonards plotting which was cool

been on such an EL binge lately.
reading "unknown Man #89" right now.

bobby womack passed a while ago, and this is always relevant anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzRJgZG98I

prob the best ever writer to binge on xp

lagoon do you like richard stark? his parker novels are like candy bars.

never read him what do u recommend

Almost missed this--Pam Grier is in town tonight to introduce a Lightbox screening. I had been planning on seeing the Billy Crudup film tonight, but as soon as I saw the schedule I checked on ticket availability, assuming there wouldn't be any. Wrong...very excited!

I doubt that my students would mind at all if I cancelled tonight's tutorial and immediately hauled ass to Toronto--and I could easily make it--but I figure that the prof I work for definitely would. Damn.

Enjoy, and please share stories/pictures!

Not too many women intimidate me (actually, all women intimidate me, but to make my point, I have to begin by saying that not too many women intimidate me). Pam Grier intimidates me.

You should read her autobio which is pretty crackers. I love her work, but there's something a little off about her

wasn't she a scientologist at some point... some kind of cultist.

she also dated bobby womack, which is... pretty neat, actually.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Richard Pryor also

they dated bobby womack?

yeah they double-teamed him until Kareem realized the situation conflicted with his Muslim beliefs

I was so floored when this happened that I took a screen shot

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pamgrier.jpg

(turns out she follows a lot of people)

i like her in bogus journey

yeah they double-teamed him until Kareem realized the situation conflicted with his Muslim beliefs

Never bothered him when he and Magic were busy double-teaming Dr. J.

She mentioned Jabbar tonight as her "first boyfriend in L.A." No photo--she was late, and the Lightbox makes such maneuvering very difficult--but she was nice enough to sign my Foxy Brown DVD. She got a standing ovation, spoke for probably half an hour, and was very funny. It'll be the only time in my life I get to hear a 66-year-old woman say "blow job" six or seven times.

It was her generation that invented blow jobs iirc. But seriously, that sounds cool, she is an interesting person.

She did say in her autobio that Jabbar wanted her to be a traditional Muslim wife or girlfriend and that's what split them up.

Roger Ebert loved it;

"There is a scene here that involves the ex-con Louis (Robert De Niro) and Ordell's druggie mistress (Bridget Fonda) discussing a photograph pinned to the wall, and it's so perfectly written, timed and played that I applauded it."